Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous ...

For decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad ... s famous description of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.) An exile journalist, Waad al-Kateab, told me ...

in which he detailed his deliberations with Hussein al-Husseini, Rafik Hariri, Elias Hrawi, Saud al-Faisal, Hekmat al-Shahabi and Hafez al-Assad in this regard. Former MP Boutros Harb, who attended ...

Iran emerged from its eight-year war with Iraq (1980-1988) battered: its economy in shambles, no allies to count on, a ...

CAIRO — On the eve of Bashar al-Assad's escape, I was worried about ... The comical and sad downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opened the series of downfalls at the beginning of the ...

Hafez al-Assad. Kassab says its time for the U.S. to lift wide-ranging sanctions imposed during Syria’s civil war, which ended with Assad’s ouster in December. In a series of off-the-cuff ...

It is becoming increasingly important because the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad fell on December ... toppled Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein. The Assad regime then cynically exploited the ...

Pseudo-left parties internationally have hailed last month’s takeover of Syria by Hay’at Tahrir al ... Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday December 8, 2024. [AP Photo/Hussein Malla] The ...